no one's dying.

alright listen this is a system journal, the following is a list of people you're probably going to see. yes we're small. we don't have filters or anything of the sort, because if anyone finds this journal without our intending to, then the information we're most concerned about hiding (our status as multiple at all) is out in the open already. however, we're probably going to talk about mental health stuff and past experiences, which can get personal and upsetting. so we'll put those behind cuts.



archer: host and fronts almost all the time. studying animation. loves drawing, writing, video games, tarot reading.

cyrus: grumpy protector guy. doesn't talk much but when he does he can be blunt, it's nothing personal. loves the x files, mythology, and logic puzzles.

henry: came out here to have a good time, and he's going to have one whether you like it or not. loves nature in all its forms, bird emotes o >o , and gallows humour.

opal: new friend. we don't know much about her yet. she's nonverbal but communicates with images and body movements. probably won't post for obvious reasons, unless her abilities change.

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the body: 20 years old, female-bodied. diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and ADHD-inattentive. also has a birth defect in the hip that fucks up basically everything. lives in boston during the school year and NJ in the summer.

 So we went to see a doctor today. It was intended to be a psychiatrist, but since we got redirected to another location, we ended up with a general practicioner in emergency care instead - the psychiatry department had closed for the day. 

Anyhow, he agreed we needed to speak to a psychiatrist, but also recommended we speak to a sleep doctor and neurologist for the other factors contributing to our sleep problems (the circadian rhythm fuckuppery and the hip thing, namely). We're holding off on a neurologist until we get back to NJ for the summer, but we are going to see a sleep doctor. And we're still going to go back to our usual place on Tuesday and try again to request a psychiatrist appointment. 

So like, sure, we slept until noon and missed class again. Which sucks majorly. But I'm going to email the prof and explain to him the situation, as well as tell him the steps we took to resolve it today, so maybe it won't be so bad. 

References: what other works of art, cinematic, pictorial, literary, did this film bring to mind, and why?

This movie refers a lot to the black-and-white Hollywood monster movies and “Justice League vs. The Communists!” comics that were popular during that era, and Bird faithfully maintained some aspects of those pieces of media while subverting, analyzing, and commenting on others. The film’s score, as already mentioned, is directly evocative of the classical and orchestral music genres. If you like the idea of 1950s Americana combined with soul-crushing nuclear apocalypse, but want to see more of the nuclear apocalypse part, consider playing the video game Fallout 3.

...Are we bad people for writing that?

I feel like a bad person for writing that.

HEY GUYS it me

(me is henry)

nothings really happened in our life the past few days aside from archer miserably doing more homework while i do exactly 0% of it (sry archer)! thats what you get when you go to art school with two people who dont care about art. tho i guess in fairness we werent really active when they got accepted so its whatever

uhhh what else

yeah i got nothin. we were looking at more persona stuff earlier and i dont really know much about p5 but the cat looks cute??? very excited to play a video game w/ a talking thief cat. but thats not gonna happen until the end of the semester like six weeks from now URRRGGGHHH

...i realize this is like exactly the same thing the last post is about but our life is literally just that one-note and boring right now... everyone is like sick of it but what comes after is going back to our family's house in NJ and thats gonna be a whole 'nother barrel of monkeys but at least we have a working tv to play games on there??

EDIT: OH and we sent out some emails to get a cosplay commissioned possibly!!! gonna be owain from back home!! fun fun fun. owain is a cool guy

EDIT 2 (by Archer): Also, follow us on tumblr!

So, taking a leaf out of a certain other user's book, we figured we'd start up some weekly tasklist stuff to keep track of what we need to get done, and also so everyone else can see why animation is basically self-inflicted art hell. Let's begin!!
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...So yeah, as you can see, we're having the time of our lives over here and not overworked/falling behind at all. The only comfort is knowing that in six weeks, this will be all over. We'll be able to go home and kinda relax and maybe, maybe be able to play some of those games we bought like four months ago.

 So since we said we would possibly do a "what the fuck is going on with this system" post before, and it's midnight and the ADHD meds have stopped working and we can't do anything else, might as well do it now. Just so you know, trauma is part of it, and so this post will dance awkwardly around the topic of emotional abuse and the resulting effects on the victim. Also super super heavy dissociation.
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